When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
When I first came to London I thought there'd be this amazing music scene, but I was quite let down by how… — James Righton Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we… — Tommy Rettig Copy Share Image
I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
I was 14 when I decided I wanted to start doing music and stuff. I was a really big fan of Ben… — Noah Cyrus Copy Share Image
By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or… — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
I put my energy into writing songs. I have to carve out a living somehow doing this, and licensing is one way.… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
I just want to get better at writing songs. That's pretty much the only end goal for me. I really hope I… — CMAT Copy Share Image
I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day.… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons.… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce… — Graham Parker Copy Share Image
I've always been a singer-songwriter - it started off with me and the guitar, just writing songs, they were very simple. When… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to the real stuff and the stuff that feels authentic. And so when I'm writing songs, that's what… — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11. — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
